Combined subsoiler and planting attachment



(No Model.)

W. P. REEVES.

OOMBINED SUBSOILER AND PLANTING ATTACHMENT. No. 354,231. Patented Dec.14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VWILLIAM annnvEs, or MILTONVALE, KANSAS.

COMBINED SUBSOILER AND PLANTING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,231, dated December14, 1886.

Application filed Septembr r 25, 1886. Serial N0v 214,532. (X0 model.)

and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, andto theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in combined subsoilers andplanting attachments, which are provided with an adjustable seedguideand the whole adapted to be attached to a cultivator provided with meansfor dropping corn, or to a seeder,wherel'iy grain may be delivercd froma seed-box to the loose earth formed by said plow and subsoiler, all ofwhich will be hereinafter fully explained.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of my subsoiler.Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line at :12,

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa vertical section taken on line .2 2, Fig. 4. Fig. 4is a transverse vertical section of the guide-spout, and Fig. 5 isahorizontal section taken on line 3 y, Fig. 3.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A desblade 0. The subsoiler isarc-shaped, and is.

tapered. from its center 0" laterally and forwardly, thus forming aconcavity on its under side, to which blade the lower end of the colteris secured.

D represents the feed or guide for the grain, having the opentop f toreceive a tube which leads from the seed-box, and through which a slot,G, in the colter B, whereby the guide k may be raised or lowered, asdesired.

It is designed to secure the barA in rear of a drill-tooth or plow inany suitable manner, and connect the guide D to the seed-box by atuba-and when the furrow hasbeen opened by the plow to give a sutficientdepth, thenfollows the snbsoiler, which loosens up the earth in thebottom of the furrow, and in this loose earth the grain is deposited bypassing from a s'eed box, through a tube, into the seed-guide, and outthe bottom thereof. By this means of depositing the seed in loosenedearth at the bottom of the furrow it will germinate quicker and strongerthan if it were deposited on the solid bottom of the furrow.

I am aware that it is not new to hinge a dropping-tubein rear of acolter, nor is it new to adjustably secure to the lower end of aplowsta'ndard asubsoil-plate. I therefore broadly disclaim such devices.

.What I claim is t The combination of the standard A andvertically-slotted colter B, formed of a single piece, thesutisoil-bladeG, secured to the sole of the colter, the vertically-adjustable tubularguide D, having an opening, I), through its back, back-wardly-divergingsides 6 e, ribs e near its upper end, and the strap and bolt securingthis guide to the vertical back of the colter, all as described andshown.

In testimony whereof I afii-x my signature in presence of two witnesses.v

WILLIAM F. REEVES.

Witnesses:

J AMES ll/ICARTHUR, J. G. GUSHMAN.

